Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia

One of the worst ever flood disaster in the Malaysian history that occurred in December 2014 has caused a lot of damages including lives, houses and material possessions. Large parts of the country mainly the East Coast areas consisting of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang have badly affected. This st...

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Main Authors:	A.Manaf, Aini Maznina, Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha, Wok, Saodah, Ismail, Rizalawati
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/55721/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/55721/3/55721-update.pdf

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spelling	iium-557212017-03-07T01:15:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/55721/ Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia A.Manaf, Aini Maznina Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha Wok, Saodah Ismail, Rizalawati H Social Sciences (General) One of the worst ever flood disaster in the Malaysian history that occurred in December 2014 has caused a lot of damages including lives, houses and material possessions. Large parts of the country mainly the East Coast areas consisting of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang have badly affected. This study was conducted to explore the use of mobile phone during the 2014 Malaysian flood. A cross-sectional survey with a total number of 507 respondents who live in the flood affected areas was conducted to examine the use and satisfactions obtained from the usage of mobile phone. Being active users of mobile phone, flood victims mainly used mobile phones to obtain information about flood status in their house areas and to communicate with close family members. Furthermore, mobile phones were used to gratify social, entertainment, and mobility needs. Findings of the study will have implications on uses and gratifications, mobile phone use and natural disasters. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/55721/3/55721-update.pdf A.Manaf, Aini Maznina and Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha and Wok, Saodah and Ismail, Rizalawati (2016) Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia. In: The 9th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures (MICOLLAC 2016), 16th-18th August 2016, Penang. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) A.Manaf, Aini Maznina Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha Wok, Saodah Ismail, Rizalawati Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia
description	One of the worst ever flood disaster in the Malaysian history that occurred in December 2014 has caused a lot of damages including lives, houses and material possessions. Large parts of the country mainly the East Coast areas consisting of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang have badly affected. This study was conducted to explore the use of mobile phone during the 2014 Malaysian flood. A cross-sectional survey with a total number of 507 respondents who live in the flood affected areas was conducted to examine the use and satisfactions obtained from the usage of mobile phone. Being active users of mobile phone, flood victims mainly used mobile phones to obtain information about flood status in their house areas and to communicate with close family members. Furthermore, mobile phones were used to gratify social, entertainment, and mobility needs. Findings of the study will have implications on uses and gratifications, mobile phone use and natural disasters.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	A.Manaf, Aini Maznina Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha Wok, Saodah Ismail, Rizalawati
author_facet	A.Manaf, Aini Maznina Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha Wok, Saodah Ismail, Rizalawati
author_sort	A.Manaf, Aini Maznina
title	Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia
title_short	Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia
title_full	Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia
title_sort	usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in malaysia
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/55721/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/55721/3/55721-update.pdf
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Usage of mobile phones among victims during the 2014 flood in Malaysia

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